PSLO (Goal - Program Student Learning Outcome)

The goal of the Humanities/Fine Arts requirement is to enhance the understanding of students who, as citizens and educated members of their community, need to know and appreciate their own human cultural heritage and roots. Through the study of the Humanities and Fine Arts, such students will gain substantial knowledge and appreciation of their global heritage, both in its western and non-western aspects. Also, through study of Humanities and Fine Arts, students will develop an understanding, which they otherwise would not have, of the present as informed by the past.

Course Student Learning Outcomes (CSLO)

• CSLO1: Analyze significant primary texts and works of art, ancient, pre-modern, and modern, as forms of cultural and creative expression.
• Students will read and analyze hero myths, exploring the ways in which heroes both express the values of an individual culture and reveal universal human values and behaviors.
• CSLO2: Explain the ways in which humanistic and/or artistic expression throughout the ages expresses the culture and values of its time and place.
• Students will read and analyze hero myths, exploring how these heroes exemplify the values of their cultures.
• Students will read and analyze hero myths that are a part of the Western tradition, defining Western culture in the past and present.
• CSLO3: Explore global/cultural diversity.
• Students will recognize the values that various cultures place in their heroes as well as the similarities between heroes from various cultures.
• CSLO4: Frame a comparative context through which they can critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that have created the modern world.
• Students will explore various approaches to hero myths and how those approaches express universal human values and experiences.
• CSLO5: Recognize the ways in which both change and continuity have affected human history.
• Students will recognize some of the recurring themes and concepts that have influenced people's understanding and attitudes toward heroes throughout Western history.
• CSLO6: Practice the critical and analytical methodologies of the Humanities and Fine Arts.
• Students will apply a variety of approaches to hero myths to the analysis of a novel (Novel Analysis semester project).